Tengu Man (テングマン,Tenguman?) is a Robot Master from Mega Man 8. Originally built as an experimental robot that can generate artificial typhoons, he was modified into a combat robot by Doctor Albert W. Wily. He is modeled after the Tengu, a Japanese yōkai.

Tengu Man is equipped with a razor-winged jet engine on his back that grants him high-speed flight, a retractable triple-bladed weapon on his arm, and the ability to summon cutting blades of air and whirlwinds with Tornado Hold to trap and blow his opponents to their doom. He is one of the few Robot Masters to grant two different Special Weapons on separate occasions.

Tengu Man is highly proud of his large nose, is good at reading the atmosphere, and likes fly fishing. He looks down on others and fights with boldness, having noticeably arrogant and overconfident mannerisms.

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Tengu Man is one of the first four bosses, and is stationed within a high mountain range in Japan. Mega Man defeats him and obtains Tornado Hold and one sample of the Evil Energy. His weakness is Ice Wave.

Mega Man & Bass

Tengu Man's stage appears to be high in the air. In the beginning, Mega Man or Bass must use balloons to proceed and get inside an area with pipes. In the Japanese version, Roll mentions that it is a weird stage for a tengu-like robot, and it makes a great conversation topic.

Tengu Man was responsible for generating the typhoon covering Wily's secret flying hideout. When Duo enters the typhoon to find the Evil Energy and is followed by Mega Man, Tengu Man keeps him away with his wind. After some struggle, Mega Man manages to stop the typhoon and fights against Tengu Man as Super Mega Man. Although heavily damaged, Tengu Man angrily takes Mega Man and dives to crush him on the impact. Mega Man uses Flash Bomb to blind Tengu Man, making him release Mega Man. As Tengu Man opens his eyes, he sees Mega Man ready to fire a charge shot, which destroys him. Mega Man floats on the water tired and is rescued by his friends.

Tengu Man later appears again inside the Wily Tower, where he has a fight with Pirate Man and both disappear.

Tengu Man is shown to have joined King's army to exact revenge on Mega Man for disgracing him in their previous battle, making Astro Man lure him to trap while he is flying with Rush and a Met. After convincing Astro Man to stop fighting, Tengu Man knocks him down, revealing that they are in a platform flying high on the air. At first Tengu Man has advantage, but Bass appears and weakened him before being forced to leave due to Treble having low energy. As the platform starts breaking, Mega Man manages to defeat Tengu Man with the Met's help before falling to their doom. However, Astro Man secretly rescues Mega Man and the Met, and they are found by Rush.

In Mega Man & Bass, Tengu Man still uses the Tornado Hold in battle, but instead of sending the player skyward for Tengu Man to slash down, the weapon catches the player and tries to dump him off the edge of the platform to his death.

Tengu Man is the second Robot Master based on a mythological creature (the first was Centaur Man).

Tengu Man's attack, the kamaitachi, is a ball made of sharp wind. The Kamaitachi is a Japanese yokai, a wind weasel capable of creating sharp wind strong enough to cut.

Tengu Man has different stage themes in the Saturn and PlayStation versions of Mega Man 8. With his theme from Mega Man & Bass, he's the only classic series Robot Master to have three official stage themes.

Tengu Man is the only Robot Master in Mega Man 8 (besides Cut Man in the Sega Saturn version) who takes 2 units of damage from a Mega Buster shot and 4 units from a fully-charged Mega Buster shot. This makes him one of the weakest bosses in Mega Man 8 to the Mega Buster.

This weakness to the Mega Buster disappeared in Mega Man & Bass, suggesting Tengu Man may have been modified by King to make him more suitable for combat, further enhancing the theory that he may have been initially designed as a civilian Robot Master.

In his Mega Man 8 artwork and Mega Man & Bass CD database, Tengu Man's "cutter" is blue, but in his Mega Man & Bass artwork and sprite, it is green.

In Mega Man & Bass, if the player hits Tengu Man with Spread Drill while he is inside the wall during his diving attack he will fall inside the wall and get stuck, thus unable to fight back.

Tengu Man was one of the only two Robot Masters to receive a toy in the form of a model kit from Bandai's Mega Armor model kit series, the other being Sword Man. Tengu Man's model features a removable shurken. Curiously, promotional pictures of the model depict his wings, feet and shuriken being modeled in blue plastic, which the actual model has these pieces modeled in white plastic.

Based on his Mega Man & Bass CD Data, he may have had commercial applications before he was used by Wily as a warrior, implying he could have had his origins in designs created by Dr. Wily before the scientist went rouge. This is supported by the fact that, like many of Wily's older creations (notably Air Man, another air-themed Robot Master) and former Dr. Light Robot Masters (Cut Man, Splash Woman), he has extra vulnerability to Mega Buster in Mega Man 8.

Also, Tengu Man's ability to manipulate wind can be seen as an upgraded form of Air Man's (both have the power to shape the wind into attacks, notably tornadoes, though Tengu Man's means of generation cannot be damaged as easily as Air Man's propeller).